Franz Kafka Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old franz kafka quotes, franz kafka sayings, and franz kafka proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

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Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility.

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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First impressions are always unreliable.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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You are free and that is why you are lost.

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One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief.

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.